ἠλέματα
Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιον ἡ ὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking
Translations
in vain
Arabic: عَبَثًا; Armenian: զուր, իզուր; Belarusian: дарэмна, дарма, марна; Bulgarian: напразно; Catalan: en va; Chinese Mandarin: 徒然, 白白, 無益, 无益, 徒勞, 徒劳; Chinook Jargon: k'ax̣chi; Czech: neúspěšně; Dutch: tevergeefs, vergeefs; English: in vain, vainly, pointlessly, uselessly; Esperanto: sensolve, vane; Finnish: turhaan, tarpeettomasti, tarpeetta; French: en vain, inutilement; Galician: en balde, en van; German: vergebens, vergeblich; Greek: μάταια, του κάκου, εις μάτην, επί ματαίω; Ancient Greek: ἄκραντα, ἀλεμάτως, ἅλιον, ἁλίως, ἄλλως, ἀνεμώλια, ἀνόνητα, ἀνονήτως, ἀνωφελῶς, ἀπράκτως, ἀσυντελῶς, ἀτελειώτως, ἀτελέστως, αὔσιον, αὔτως, ἀχρεῖον, ἀχρήστως, διὰ κενῆς, διακενῆς, διακένως, δωρεάν, εἰκαῖα, εἰκῇ, ἐν κενοῖς, ἐτώσια, ἐτώσιον, ἠλέματα, ἠλεμάτως, ματαίως, μάτην, μάψ, τηνάλλως, τηυσίως, τηϋσίως, φρούδως; Hungarian: hiába, hasztalan, hasztalanul; Icelandic: til einskis, árangurslaus, unnið fyrir gýg; Italian: invano; Japanese: 無益の; Kazakh: бекер; Korean: 헛되이; Kurdish Central Kurdish: باداوە; Latin: in cassum, futtile, frustra, in vanum; Malayalam: വൃഥാ, വെറുതെ; Manchu: ᠮᡝᡴᡝᠯᡝ; Maori: parau, paraurehe, huakore; Navajo: chʼééh; Norwegian Bokmål: forgjeves, fånyttes; Nynorsk: forgjeves; Old English: on īdel; Plautdietsch: vejäfs; Polish: daremnie, na darmo, na próżno, bezskutecznie; Portuguese: em vão, inutilmente; Romanian: degeaba, în zadar; Russian: напрасно, зря, даром, тщетно, впустую, всуе, зря, безуспешно, попусту; Serbo-Croatian: ȕzalūd, ȕzalūdno; Slovene: zamàn; Spanish: en vano, en balde, inútilmente; Swedish: förgäves; Tagalog: lihing; Ukrainian: марно, даремно, дарма; Vietnamese: hoài